Italian Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)


1 cup warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 head of roasted garlic (optional)
3 cups bread flour or all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
cornmeal, for baking sheet
1 egg white, slightly beaten

Add flour, oil, salt, roasted garlic, sugar, yeast and water to your bread machine according to its instructions.
Set on dough setting.
Always follow your machines instructions, when mixing open it and keep check on the dough.
Dough should be in a nice round soft sticky to the touch ball.
If it is not add more water, or add flour which ever is needed.
Remove when signal beeps and cycle is done.
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Sprinkle cornflour or cornmeal onto a baking sheet.
Punch dough down and form into a long or oval loaf.
Cover and let rise for 25 more minutes.
(I set my baking sheet on a heating pad on medium. Its perfect for letting bread rise)
It should be doubled again by this time.
Uncover and slash the top with a sharp knife or razor.
Brush all over with the beaten egg white.
Bake 25 minutes to 35 minutes, until hollow sounding when tapped on bottom.
Cool before slicing.



It is really good with some parm cheese or granulated garlic sprinkled on top just before baking.

I made this last night into two easier to manage smaller loaves.
I doubled the roasted garlic. They are gonna be so good with Mama's marinara sauce.

JG,

You out-did yourself! Where's mine?:p

Cathy

lol Maybe we can UPS you a loaf.

That sounds like a plan (albiet an exspensive one)

You'll get a kick out of this...my sister that lives in Vermont was as all of us kids are born & raised in the South. But she's lived up there a real long time now (over 20 yrs.) well we were talking one day and I mentioned Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and she about had a fit, "Oh my gosh I miss them!" And our conversation turned to how where she lives the doughnut shop just can't come close to the Krispy Kreme's straight off the conveyor belt! So the next day I went to the KK Doughnut shop and bought a dozen fresh out of the fryer, and went straight to UPS and over-nighted them to her! She flipped out when she opened them, and later told me she & her hubby ate 2 @ breakfast and 2 after dinner for the next 3 days, she said they were fabulous and that took care of her craving for a while:p. Gotta love my baby sis, and be good to her! You know the baby always gets spoiled:D

Cathy